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Writing a Response Journal
Need to get your students to do more than just reading comprehension? Get them to make meaningful connections to what they�ve read by writing reading response journals. Sample is included to help them get started.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Type: others
Downloads: 91
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Reading Comprehension + Vocab: Influence and Affect
Explains meaning of influence/affect. Nice and meaningful story to demonstrate use of these terms. Communicative exercise to use the terms and get students thinking about them meaningfully!
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 16
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Reading: Cause, Effect, Consequences with Definition
Funny story to demonstrate cause, effect, consequence.
Hope it gives some laughs and opens class up for discussion.
Clipart is from a freeclipart website. Link is included as acknowledgment.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 110
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Writing a Review
Guide to writing a review with space right beside it for students to see. Note: Please see Alvin and the Chipmunk Review in my downloadables for a sample to go with this lesson. Can be used to review anything: story, toy, game.
Level: elementary
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 29
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Movie Review: Alvin and the Chipmunks + questions
Movie Review including questions. Exercise touches on fact and fiction, especially reading for meaning (by understanding the elements of good writing). Again, good for CALP. Lots of kids need more than just comprehension but ability to read and evaluate texts (as per Bloom�s Taxonomy). Thanks in advance for comments!
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Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: Choose
Downloads: 104
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Worksheet: Reading Response (Self/World/Text Framework)
Get your students to respond to writing by making connections to the self, the world, and other texts. Foster critical reading skills. Includes focus questions for students to answer. Current version applies to narrative forms but it is fully editable and can be adapted to other text types.
Level: intermediate
Age: 9-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 8
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Writing a Biography
A fun way to engage students in writing a biography. Can be combined with a lesson on uses of present and past tense, adjectives applied to people, building relationships between students, and thinking skills.
Level: elementary
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 48
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Graphic Organizer: Topic, Audience, and Purpose
Handy graphic organizer to help ESL students with analyzing texts, especially when preparing for non-ESL academic courses. It helps for them to be able to use the language of topic, audience, and purpose when reading/writing a text. Good for CALP.
Note: Two versions included - the second is for younger students
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Fun with Adjectives: Gross vs Scary Mood
Most young kids are intrigued by what�s scary/disgusting. Here�s an exercise to help them expand their vocabulary, make use of their thinking abilities, read an example of a disgusting poem, and have an opportunity to use vocabulary effectively to write in a specific mood. Great for all ages!
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 13
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Citizenship word list (activity)
A way to begin discussing "citizenship" in the classroom, or even simply, classroom rules. Vocabulary word list with pictures that students can match. They can cut and paste the pictures and match them with the proper definition. It is great because it involves a hands-on thinking activity!
Level: elementary
Age: 6-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 9
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